About

Consume the Cum Chalice refers to a viral video of Yandere Simulator developer YandereDev toasting with a glass chalice filled with milk and drinking from it. In January and February 2020, a GIF-based on the video captioned "Consume the Cum Chalice," which implied that the chalice contained semen, gained popularity, largely in connection to YandereDev being criticized online, and as a method of getting banned from his server. The GIF inspired redraws and similar memes, with the caption also gaining online recognition.

Origin

At an unknown date before February 26th, 2010,^[1] Alexander Mahan, future developer of Yandere Simulator, uploaded a video in which he toasted with a milk chalice to one Nicholas Alexander pirating Warcraft III to play DotA. While the original video has since been deleted, on September 6th, 2019, Twitter^[2] user @BornHandicapped reuploaded it (shown below), with the tweet receiving over 500 retweets and 1,600 likes in five months. A December 4th YouTube^[3] reupload received over 78,500 views in two months.

this is the only thing i know about yanderedev pic.twitter.com/52BwpE0W9i

— spencer f. fentanyl (@BornHandicapped) September 7, 2019

I, EvaX, humbly submit a toast to Nicholas Alexander for successfully managing to pirate Warcraft III so that he may play Defence of the Ancients. Congratulations, Nick, enjoy your DoTA. [sips] Ahhh!

On February 26th, 2010, YouTuber^[1] DarkPieman posted the earliest known shitpost based on the video which received over 192,000 views in ten years.

I have never had sex! [sips] Ahhh! Toasters.

On December 31st, 2019, and January 1st, 2020, Tenor^[4][5] user niggacar69 posted two sped-up GIFs based on the video of YandereDev drinking from the chalice captioned "Consume the Cum Chalice" (shown below, left and right).

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On January 9th, 2020, Twitter^[6][7] user @careful_wario posted a Danganronpa dub of the video, with the tweet receiving over 1,000 retweets and 3,800 likes. In the replies, more users posted edits of the video,^[8] with Twitter^[9] user @zipper_man posting a GIF Caption based on the "Consume the Cum Chalice" GIF (shown below).

pic.twitter.com/QOlYniWkFW

— Koichi Brando (@zipper__man) January 11, 2020

Online, the "Cum Chalice" GIFs gained popularity in connection with YandereDev's Discord Ban Speedruns which saw a significant resurgence online following a January 17th and January 18th, 2020, tweets by @arsene_04^[10] and @JonVaginal.^[11] On January 20th, 2020, Twitter^[12] user @thatbenny reposted the original video of YandereDev drinking from the chalice to provide context for the GIF being frequently reposted.

Starting in late January 2020, edits of the video, redraws and memes based on the captioned gained significant sporead online with notable examples posted on Twitter, iFunny, YouTube, Reddit and other platforms. For example, a January 24th, 2020, Persona edit by iFunny^[13] user DanteFan received over 580 smiles in three weeks (shown below, left). A January 26th, 2020, nightcore meme by YouTube user LazyLow^[14] received over 36,700 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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External References